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K.T. Arasu , Yu Qing Chen and Alexander Pott

We discuss new constructions of Hadamard and conference matrices using relative difference sets. We present the first example of a relative ( n, 2, n - 1, \frac n - 22) (n, 2, n - 1, \frac{{n - 2}}{2}) -difference set where n - 1 is not a prime power.

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